Five Key Numbers In CBO’s Score of the Senate Finance Bill

The Congressional Budget Office just released its estimates for the Senate Finance Committee’s big health-overhaul bill. (Here’s the WSJ story.) The bottom line: CBO estimates that the bill will shave more than $80 billion off of the federal deficit over a 10-year period.

Here are five key numbers from CBO:

94%: The percentage of legal U.S. residents under 65 who will have health insurance in 2019. That’s up from about 83% today. The bill doesn’t provide coverage for illegal immigrants. U.S. citizens 65 and older already have near universal access to health insurance, through Medicare.

29 million: The decrease over a decade in the number of people who are under 65 and uninsured.

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